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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>2 Corinthians 11 NET Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/2_corinthians/11.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/2_corinthians/11-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NET Bible</a> > 2 Corinthians 11</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_corinthians/10.htm" title="2 Corinthians 10">◄</a> 2 Corinthians 11 <a href="../2_corinthians/12.htm" title="2 Corinthians 12">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">NET Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/net/esv/2_corinthians/11.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="title">Paul and His Opponents</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>I wish that you would be patient with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you are being patient with me! <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy, because I promised you in marriage to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>But I am afraid that just as the serpent deceived Eve by his treachery, your minds may be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus different from the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit than the one you received, or a different gospel than the one you accepted, you put up with it well enough! <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For I consider myself not at all inferior to those “super-apostles.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And even if I am unskilled in speaking, yet I am certainly not so in knowledge. Indeed, we have made this plain to you in everything in every way. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Or did I commit a sin by humbling myself so that you could be exalted, because I proclaimed the gospel of God to you free of charge? <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>I robbed other churches by receiving support from them so that I could serve you! <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>When I was with you and was in need, I was not a burden to anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia fully supplied my needs. I kept myself from being a burden to you in any way, and will continue to do so. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be stopped in the regions of Achaia. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do! <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And what I am doing I will continue to do, so that I may eliminate any opportunity for those who want a chance to be regarded as our equals in the things they boast about. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Therefore it is not surprising his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness, whose end will correspond to their actions.</p> <p class="title">Paul’s Sufferings for Christ</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>I say again, let no one think that I am a fool. But if you do, then at least accept me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>What I am saying with this boastful confidence I do not say the way the Lord would. Instead it is, as it were, foolishness. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Since many are boasting according to human standards, I too will boast. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>For since you are so wise, you put up with fools gladly. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>For you put up with it if someone makes slaves of you, if someone exploits you, if someone takes advantage of you, if someone behaves arrogantly toward you, if someone strikes you in the face. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>(To my disgrace I must say that we were too weak for that!) But whatever anyone else dares to boast about (I am speaking foolishly), I also dare to boast about the same thing. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Are they servants of Christ? (I am talking like I am out of my mind!) I am even more so: with much greater labors, with far more imprisonments, with more severe beatings, facing death many times. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Five times I received from the Jews forty lashes less one. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Three times I was beaten with a rod. Once I received a stoning. Three times I suffered shipwreck. A night and a day I spent adrift in the open sea. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>I have been on journeys many times, in dangers from rivers, in dangers from robbers, in dangers from my own countrymen, in dangers from Gentiles, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers at sea, in dangers from false brothers, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>in hard work and toil, through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, many times without food, in cold and without enough clothing. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Apart from other things, there is the daily pressure on me of my anxious concern for all the churches. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led into sin, and I do not burn with indignation? <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>If I must boast, I will boast about the things that show my weakness. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is blessed forever, knows I am not lying. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>In Damascus, the governor under King Aretas was guarding the city of Damascus in order to arrest me, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>but I was let down in a rope-basket through a window in the city wall, and escaped his hands.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href="http://netbible.com/">NET Bible copyright © 1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. http://netbible.com.<br />Used by permission. 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